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What Now, Karl?
Rove and Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair
by Murray Waas


Justice Department officials made the crucial decision in late 2003 to
appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of the identity
of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame in large part because
investigators had begun to specifically question the veracity of
accounts provided to them by White House deputy chief of staff Karl
Rove, according to senior law enforcement officials.

Several of the federal investigators were also deeply concerned that
then attorney general John Ashcroft was personally briefed regarding
the details of at least one FBI interview with Rove, despite
Ashcroft's own longstanding personal and political ties to Rove, the
Voice has also learned. The same sources said Ashcroft was also told
that investigators firmly believed that Rove had withheld important
information from them during that FBI interview.
......
As the truthfulness of Rove's accounts became more of a focus of
investigators, career Justice Department employees and senior FBI
officials became even more concerned about the continuing role in the
investigation of Ashcroft, because of his close relationship with
Rove. Rove had earlier served as an adviser to Ashcroft during the
course of three political campaigns. And Rove’s onetime political
consulting firm had been paid more than $746,000 for those services.
......
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